Apart from the well thought out and "proper arguments" like "You don't know what queries it does underneath...". Its usually the "insane-funny-sub-language" you

Apart from the well thought out and "proper arguments" like "You don't know what queries it does underneath...". Its usually the "insane-funny-sub-language" you have to learn to work the said ORM which only works for 50% of the queries before you really have to get weird with it. My not correct and sub optimal solution over the years is to have some sort of "god-class" that has a big collection of sql-related queries with some query-reuse(error checking etc) like "student_insert_update(namedList,namedValues)" or "student_get_all_subjects(student_id,semester)" I know its not perfect :/